Sunday, March 20, 2011

Nicole’s roommate, Morgan, recently won a bottle of Bakon brand bacon flavored vodka.Let me reiterate the fact that this was won and thankfully not purchased.Once the seal was broken and the bottle open we all waited patiently for her to dole out some tastes.I was excited by the prospect of this bizarre draught, but was quickly disappointed.

The initial taste is of ultra-astringent cheap vodka, like the kind for sale a grocery stores and convenience marts in plastic gallon jugs.The cheap-stuff burn is bad enough, but it’s quickly replaced by an overwhelming smokiness which isn’t apparent in the “bouquet,” like chasing a shot of cheap vodka with a slug of liquid smoke.While neither of these is appealing, the actual worst part of the whole experience is the unaccountable-for fatty aftertaste.I don’t know how it’s done, but the after taste and mouth feel are similar to that of chomping on a nub of bacon fat.

My first though after tossing back a spot of this off-putting drank was bacon Bloody Mary, it’s their “flagship” cocktail, and something I’m sure tastes more than a bit like barbeque sauce juice.My favorite, and the most appealing by far, is the Waffle Shot, equal parts Pinnacle Whipped and Bakon.And the list goes on and on and on and never really sounds appealing, to whit the poorly named and awful sounding Scottish Bacon, equal parts Bakon and Scotch.Mmm… pass.But as off put as I was by this train wreck, I couldn’t stop thinking about how to work this into a silly little cocktail with a silly little name, and thus the Wienie-tini was born.

Ingredients:

-2oz Bakon brand bacon flavored vodka

-1oz grape vodka

-Dash hot chili sauce

Make It So:

-Pour vodkas into a shaker with ice and add hot sauce to taste

-Shake and strain into cocktail glass

-Garnish with a cooked and cooled cocktail wiener on a sword

-Enjoy?

My favorite aspect of this drink is my painfully clever name, so that should tell you something